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Month: September 2012
More on L2 Gateways

Gateway L-2 Mission: Opening Cislunar Space or Dead End?, Paul Spudis “A recent report by the NASA human architecture team has given us a glimpse of the agency’s thinking about future missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Interest is focused on sending human crews to a “Gateway” outpost stationed at the gravitationally stable Earth-Moon L-2 point. The facility, built with plans and parts derived from the construction of the International […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 30, 2012
NASA Watch Service Disruption

Marc’s note: As some of you have noticed NASA Watch was offline for nearly a day. This was the result of a Denial of Service attack that was directed specifically at NASA Watch (it would appear) and not our other websites. We are working with our ISP to determine the source of the attack.

  • NASA Watch
  • September 30, 2012
More USA Layoffs on the Space Coast

United Space Alliance laying off 121 Floridians, 13News “United Space Alliance says they are laying off over 150 employees across the country — the majority being here along the Space Coast. USA said 121 of its workers in Brevard County will be laid off. The reduction represents about six percent of their total workforce. Following the layoff, USA will have a total 2,263 employees — with 1,073 of those in […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 28, 2012
NASA OIG/OGC Won't Be Hassling Elderly Astronauts Anymore

Law says Apollo astronauts can keep, sell artifacts “President Barack Obama ended a months-long fight over NASA relics this week when he signed into law a bill that confers full ownership of early NASA artifacts to the astronauts that took them as souvenirs. The legislation follows a public — and sometimes bitter — battle between NASA and its astronaut corps over the sale of keepsakes from the agency’s earliest days, […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 28, 2012
OIG on Cost, Schedule, and Performance Goals

Final Report: NASA’s Challenges to Meeting Cost, Schedule, and Performance Goals, NASA OIG “Cost increases and schedule delays on NASA’s projects are long-standing issues for the Agency. A 2004 Congressional Budget Office study compared the initial and revised budgets of 72 NASA projects between 1977 and 2000. The initial budgets for these projects totaled $41.1 billion, while their revised budgets totaled $66.3 billion, a 61 percent increase. Moreover, since its […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 27, 2012
Streambed Discovered on Mars

Remnants of Ancient Streambed Discovered on Mars “NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence – images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels – is the first of its kind. Scientists are studying the images of stones cemented into a layer of […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 27, 2012
Bolden Tries To Save Face on ExoMars

U.S., Europe Won’t Go It Alone in Mars Exploration, Space News “Let me say this clearly, because we hear all the time that NASA has ‘abandoned’ ExoMars,” Bolden said. “We have not abandoned ExoMars, and the Electra payload is an example of our continuing high interest in the mission.” ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, NASA.gov “NASA will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions that we […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 27, 2012
Adapting Medical Products For Use In Space

SMARTCAP: Funding medical products for use on Earth and in space “Do you know of a small company developing a medical product that could be adapted to solve a health or human performance challenge in space? Have you developed a biomedical product for the space program that could also improve health on Earth? The National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Industry Forum is soliciting applications for the Space Medicine and Related […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 26, 2012
One Last Flight

Thoughts on the Last Flight of the Shuttle, Dennis Wingo, SpaceRef “I was at NASA Ames last week when the final flight of the final space shuttle Endeavour on its way to its final destination occurred. As many people did, I stood outside, on top of our MacMoon’s at Ames and took pictures. There were over 20,000 people at NASA Ames that waited hours for an event that took no […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 26, 2012
Endeavour's Last Flight – As Seen From Space

Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Last Flight As Seen From Orbit “Late last week, the Space Shuttle Endeavor flew atop a 747 into White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The shuttle continued its journey to Edwards Air Force Base in California. In October, The Space Shuttle Endeavor will be moved via road to a special display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. During the flight, DigitalGlobe captured an […]

  • NASA Watch
  • September 25, 2012